Hildersham has a loveliness about it. You can’t avoid it as you pass through, it’s just very, very charming. Not that you do ever pass through, one of the nice things about it is that commuter traffic passes it by on either side so it’s very quiet.
It’s the little bridge at the centre with sheep paddocks either side that does it. Someone unafraid of overused hyperbole might even call it picturesque.
It’s a tiny village, but has retained it’s lovely old pub, now a fashionable ‘Kitchen’ and has a church too.
It’s a tiny village, but has retained it’s lovely old pub, now a fashionable ‘Kitchen’ and has a church too.
Neighbouring Gt. Abington has a post office / convenience store, primary school and a fab pub that’s been serving great Thai food since before that sort of thing was commonplace. Linton is a couple of miles the other side and is a bigger village with a secondary school, doctor, optician, café and all those types of great things.
It’s about 7 miles south east of Cambridge so the right side for the Addenbrookes site Granta Park and The Babraham Institute are both only about 4 miles away. The access to the A11 and M11 are both close-by, with mainline railway services available at Whittlesford.
It’s called Hildersham because a woman called Hilda used to keep her ham there. Possibly.
